Day 24 Smoky Mountains

Easy down and up hill into Gatlinburg had two trail magic people today and met some awesome people. Felt like I was famous all day. Probably took like 50+ pictures with random people. For now I'm hiding in a hotel from this weather that might kill us!

Day 23 Smoky Mountains

Hiking too mt Collins and over clingmans dome which is 6655ft the highest point on the AT. I was expecting this view to be amazing but it was nothing special the forest was more amazing than anything. The forest was so thick and it felt like the forest was watching me all the way too the shelter. Or bears who knows. Probably army's of squirrels.

Day 22 Smoky Mountains

Long 19 mile hike too Derrick shelter. The hiking book is a complete lie and elevations are wrong so this day sucked. Caught back up to the group and everyone was super stoked to see me. Jeff and my brother are still ahead

Day 21 Smoky Mountains

Short day out of Fontana. Crossed the dam and the views were amazing. The uphill was no joke into the smokies. Again the views amazing and I stopped early at the first camp site. Lots of bear activity!

Day 20

This day started off at 5am and ended at 7pm. I hiked 22 miles into Fontana just to catch up to the group. I was super motivated and pushing myself just because I didn't want to get stuck in the group of fucking idiots behind me. Got into town and didn't wanna resupply because everything was over priced 

Day 19

Woke up really early and forced myself to hike the hardest up hill half sick. Ended getting to a shelter mid afternoon. Bunch of annoying hikers showed up and I wanted to kill them all because they were all complete idiots and had no self respect for people and thought it was ok to be loud and annoying till 11pm so I hiked out at 5am because I couldn't get any sleep so technically this was my first night hike

Day 18

My 2nd zero day. Was planning in hiking out but I still had a fever and wasn't doing we'll. Nothing special just sat around and did nothing. 

Day 17

Woke up super sick. Was being forced to hike out but ended up staying and I got super lucky because I started throwing up and shitting water for the next 3 days. 

Day 16

Cold spring shelter too NOC  very long day some crazy down hills. I fell two times but didn't get hurt. It was really got and we ran low on water. Fun day and night in NOC. Plenty of people got drunk. Jeff, Jessica and Alex got drunk and we have some pretty funny videos for good memories. 

Day 15

Hiked a long day from siler bald shelter too cold spring shelter. Some really amazing views and cool people. 

Day 14

Hiked an easy 8 miles outside town to the first shelter. Apple throwing at tents and typical goofing off. Creepy kid that had a gun and was clearly on drugs 

Day 13

Hiked into town staying at the budget inn. Hotel sucks but everything else rules. So many cool people and awesome food and free rides. 

Day 12

Woke up with frozen clothes and my water filter not working because it was also frozen. All my wet clothes were also frozen. It was still super cold out and we had a solid 18 mile day ahead of us. Hiked a 4900 foot mountain it was amazing and this day ruled

Day 11

Woke up early and only went into standing Indian which was only 6 miles away all my clothes were wet and it was raining and freezing out. We were 4000 feet on a mountain and it started to snow we all packed into the shelter and it dropped to 15 degrees. Everything froze. 

Day 10

It rained on our hike into NC I was going to go further but stopped at muskrat creep shelter and originally was going to go too standing Indian but it was super cold and wet. The shelter was full and I slept on the table under the shelter roof. Saw bears running around in the dark so people named me "bear burrito" 

Day 9

Chilled in town till 1 and hiked 5miles to small shelter will be in North Carolina! 4 miles away! 

Day 8

11 mile hike into town, ran out of water. fun night 

Day 7

Woke up kinda late and it took amy a long time to get ready. Again I was waiting for the privy and some dude was taking his sweet time and I almost crapped my pants again. Jeff Amy and me started the hike off kinda late we heard word of a dead bear on the trail and we came across it. It was just a baby cub and some crazy chick jumped down the cliff and cut a claw off it. Her name is "bear claw" now. 

Rough 16 mile hike day, got red bull and awesome trail magic. 

Day 6

So today was actually amazing. The hike was really hard,  a crazy 12mile hike. I managed grouping with two awesome ladies.  Alex and Jessica, Both beautiful but sadly both have boyfriend ("creepy look"only they will understand this)  We played some awesome ice breakers and talked about some major personal and creepy/ awkward things. It's amazing how you hike 8 miles with someone and you can just open up and not care. We got into the shelter around 430 and continued to goof off. Found Kenny and "fucking majestic" chilling and we hung out and laughed are asses off about so much shit. "Fucking majestic"(Jeff) got his hair cut by Alex with tiny ass sizers.  I also made a burrito called the "butt blaster" with tuna, hot sauce, pepper jack cheese. Than "dad" wanted one so he paid me $10for one which rules because it really only costed me like $1. So other than that I'm laying here trying to sleep and amy is sleeping next to me freaking out about mice crawling around and I can't stop laughing at her. It's gunna be a long night and a long 16 mile hike tomorrow. Goooooood night. 

Linda and Bruce trail magic ruled 

Day 5

woke up and my ankle didn't hurt and I was feeling alright. I almost crapped my pants on the way down the hill looking for a spot to take a dump it sucked. We woke up around 6 and while we packed up camp we watched the sun come up, today was the first day I wasn't freezing my ass off in the morning. As usual we got out before everyone towards blood mountain. It was 6 miles too blood mountain and then 1 mile up and 1 mile down and then 3 miles to camp. Me and amy knocked out the first 6 miles very quick and a lot of it was in and out of valleys. The wind always picks up in valleys and we kept stopping and putting more layers on and off. We already started 0.2miles of blood mountain without even knowing and than it started to get so hard. I have never walked up 0.8 miles of steep mountain in my entire life and it was insane when we got to the top. It was breath taking. 4500 feet up was way higher than I was thinking. We made the decent down and it was all rocks and wet from the rain two days ago. We rushed the 3 miles into the hostel and ate pizza and hot dogs like animals and settled in and started resupplying. I cut a lot of weight from my pack and got some awesome food. For now I'm going to abuse the wifi in this hostel and watch the new game of thrones and pass out I have a long 13 miles tomorrow and after the first hot shower I feel ready for sleep like no other. Also have some cool cat friends outside the hostel.